Alpha, who finished in a dead heat for first in the Grade 1 Travers Stakes at Saratoga last August, makes his Dubai debut in Thursday’s $250,000 Round Two of the Maktoum Challenge at Meydan Racecourse.
Rock On Ruby, winner of the 2012 Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham, won Monday’s 32Red Hurdle at Doncaster Racecourse in England, a two-mile race marred by a fatal injury suffered by even-money favorite Darlan at the eighth and final hurdle.
The Apache capped Mike de Kock’s three-win night at Meydan in Dubai with a three-quarter-length victory in the Group 2, $200,000 Al Rashidiya Stakes.
The winner of the $200,000 Al Rashidiya Stakes on Thursday night at Meydan in Dubai probably is part of the Godolphin operation. The question – as so often is the case at the Winter Carnival – is which Godolphin runner is the right one.
Former British jockey Andrew Heffernan was suspended for 15 years after being found guilty on corruption charges, the British Horse Racing Authority announced Friday.
Meydan Racecourse, Saeed Bin Suroor, Godolphin Racing, Sajjhaa
Sajjhaa, a 6-year-old mare who won three stakes in Europe earlier in her career, can end a four-race losing streak in Thursday’s $200,000 Cape Verdi Stakes at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai.
Music Chart, a filly by Exchange Rate who sold for $230,000 at the 2011 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling sale, won her stakes debut in Thursday’s United Arab Emirates 1000 Guineas Trial at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai.
My Special J’s, who won the Grade 2 Debutante Stakes in Ireland last August, but finished last in Group 1 races in Ireland and France in the fall, can revive her reputation in Thursday’s UAE 1000 Guineas Trial at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai.
Round 1 of the Al Maktoum Challenge, the featured race on opening night of the Dubai Winter Carnival at Meydan, hardly was the first go-round for Barbecue Eddie.
